Sinister2 (2015)
Cast:
James
Ransone, Shannyn Sossamon, Tate Ellington, John Beasley, Clare Foley and
Claudio Encarnacion Montero.
Director:
Ciaran Foy
Synopsis:
Sinister2
starts from a Catholic church's confessional booth. Haunted, unnamed former
deputy sheriff wants to share his burden: he must stop Bughuul, the
dorky-looking demon from the first sinister, from abducting more children. The
Catholic priest on the other end of Ransone's rant does the smart thing, and
shoos Ransone's character away, indirectly leading Ransone's haunted ex-cop to
try to save Bughuul's latest prospective victims: single mom Courtney and her
two nine year-old sons, Dylan and Zach.
Review:
At first, that anti-familial impulse looks like an
intriguing commentary on the nature of passively receiving vs. actively
creating violent art: Dylan and Zach are not phased by horror movies, but if
they make one of Bughuul's snuff films, they are literally transported inside
their film, thereby becoming one of Bughuul's victims. This is, as a
stereotypically nervous egghead scientist explains to Ransone's character, an
"aesthetic appreciation of violence," one of many ways Bughuul's
victims ostensibly pay tribute to him.
There are also several scenes where Ransone's character
says something that's supposed to be funny, but the line he delivers feels more
like a placeholder line that was never filled in with an actual joke, like when
he rambles to the above-mentioned priest about never knowingly taking
confession or any other kind of sacrament from the church. Likewise, Ransone's
battery of facial tics, including pursed lips and furrowed brow, seem to be
even more annoying since they appear to be compensating for his character's
lack of definition. But again, Ransone's performance isn't really terrible
since the material he has to work with is victimizing him just as surely as
Clint victimized his sons. Sinister2 may be ambitious, but its best ideas are,
as they're expressed, dumb, unmoving, and repetitive. In my opinion, I prefer
sinister2 than sinister1.
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